The back and forths continue until we are all the metaphorical puddle on the pub floor after eating a parmi the size of Texas (Queensland) but Jim Chalmers holds back on asking whether it is now Coalition policy to raise taxes for big businesses.

Not that this would be a bad thing. Big business should be paying more tax. But lets not pretend that there is some sort of altruistic spirit behind the Coalition’s Schnitty tax breaks.